Find below SWIFTT’s news articles, press releases, digests of scientific papers, as well as other outreach materials.
Project partners meet in Riga to present SWIFTT’s current version to Rīgas Meži foresters
02 July 2025
Partners received from the foresters valuable feedback and recommendations on improving the platform that will help shape the it to better match the needs of future users.
Publication: Satellite information technologies for the creation of the Ukrainian segment of the international GEOSS system
29 June 2025
In this work, SWIFTT partners from the Space Research Institute of Ukraine describe information technologies based on satellite data in the fields of agricultural monitoring, land degradation, monitoring of forests and more.
SWIFTT partners organise PhD-level course using the knowledge and research results achieved during the SWIFTT project
23 June 2025
Annalisa Appice and Giuseppina Andresini organised the course entitled “Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Remote Sensing“ within the Study Plan of the PhD program at UNIBA
SWIFTT partners at forestry and wood industry trade show FOREXPO held in the Landes, France
23 June 2025
AXA Climate and Timbtrack were there to discover the local reality of forestry in the region and to speak to foresters about SWIFTT.
AI Meets Forestry: EU Project SWIFTT Webinar Explores Insect Damage Detection in European Forests
09 June 2025
The webinar will explore the practical and technical challenges of using artificial intelligence (AI) and satellite data to monitor bark beetle outbreaks
Publication: GANDALF: A LLM-based approach to map bark beetle outbreaks in semantic stories of Sentinel-2 images
14 May 2025
In this work, SWIFTT partners from the University of Bari Aldo Moro describe GANDALF, an approach that leverages the potential of LLMs for mapping bark beetle outbreaks in Sentinel-2 images of forest areas.
Publication: A Novel Approach for Rapid Detection of Forest Degradation and Diseases Through Anomaly Analysis of Sentinel-2 Spectral Data
26 April 2025
In this work, SWIFTT partners from the Space Research Institute of Ukraine present a simple yet effective method for detecting forest degradation using freely available Sentinel-2 satellite data and an anomaly detection approach.
SWIFTT partner presents her work in the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM-SAC 2025)
11 April 2025
Annalisa Appice from the University of Bari presented the paper entitled “GANDALF: A LLM-based approach to map bark beetle outbreaks in semantic stories of Sentinel-2 images”
SWIFTT project presented to representatives of the NetZeroCities project
03 April 2025
Project partner Jānis Ģērmanis from Rīgas meži presented the project alongside the company's development plans and their involvement in other EU projects